Well, the use of assistance, if you will, or technical associates, however you wanna call it was non-existent. In the early stages of my career, we essentially worked with the head keeper in every area of the zoo that we were involved with at the time. As we moved along, there became an opportunity for them to assign a given keeper as the vet assistant. When we started the program, there was no hospital, there was essentially no that supplies or anything like that. We were soon given a cubby hole and then a room where we could keep things that were necessary. For instance, the incubators for young animals or small supply of drugs and these sorts of things. But it wasn’t until fairly recently that we had full-time animal health techs in Sacramento. Other zoos did have those kinds of individuals.
